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Update Your CBSA Codes For Transition Year Or Face Returned Claims

Published on Thu Mar 05, 2015

Your claims with outdated CBSA codes may be slipping by now, but soon they’ll come back to haunt you.   Due to the wage index transition this year, home health agencies “may serve beneficiaries in areas where there is more than one unique Core-Based Statistical Area (CBSA),” Palmetto says on its website. “In these cases, HHAs should use special CBSA [...]
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